Problem with RSS Feed from here

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Well I imported an RSS feed from the announcements forum here onto bb-styles.com, but every time I try to update it to fetch the feed it skips over the topics in there and says it has no title or content.

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There is no description offered in XenForo RSS feeds, only the topic title can be pulled. In your IPB RSS Feed code options, try removing stuff so only title is being pulled and see what it says then. I used to use IPB 3.0.6 RSS Feed and always found it worked fine pulled feeds from the BBC News site, but they offer both title and description.

Bit pointless pulling XenForo feeds really because of that, you'll only get a title link displayed. Not exactly worth pulling in without a text description of some sort.

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There is no description offered in XenForo RSS feeds, only the topic title can be pulled. In your IPB RSS Feed code options, try removing stuff so only title is being pulled and see what it says then. I used to use IPB 3.0.6 RSS Feed and always found it worked fine pulled feeds from the BBC News site, but they offer both title and description.

Bit pointless pulling XenForo feeds really because of that, you'll only get a title link displayed. Not exactly worth pulling in without a text description of some sort.

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I don't mean a setting as such, like a checkbox for example. I mean the bigger square box that list code used to pull feed aspects in. It's been a while I last used IPB so don't even remember if that is there to change.

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I don't mean a setting as such, like a checkbox for example. I mean the bigger square box that list code used to pull feed aspects in. It's been a while I last used IPB so don't even remember if that is there to change.

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But, seriously, as mrGTB is saying, the problem is likely IPB not liking the RSS feed from here not having an item description (aka: content); it only has the item title. If you view the RSS feed from here in your browse (you might have to do a 'view source' to see the raw XML) you'll see what he means.

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But, seriously, as mrGTB is saying, the problem is likely IPB not liking the RSS feed from here not having an item description (aka: content); it only has the item title. If you view the RSS feed from here in your browse (you might have to do a 'view source' to see the raw XML) you'll see what he means.

I use Chrome so I automatically see the raw XML, but I've ran validations on the RSS feeds from here, AdminExtra and now VoiceRadio.us and they all don't validate as every other RSS Feed (be it blogs, vbulletin forums, etc) get imported into my IPB forum.

I submitted a bug report to see if they can fix the validation of the RSS Feed which will most likely work.

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I guess it could be a validation thing with IPB. I do remember when using IPB 3.0.6 that it checked to see if it was a valid UTF-8 feed. The feed would still work (from what I remember), but it let you know if you was subscribing to a feed that wasn't proper validated to UTF-8. But to be fair, you'll find loads of well known popular feeds that don't validate. The BBC News seem to offer great feeds that are also well validated unlike many other sites out there.

It might also be a case, because your IPB is trying to pull both content and title. That it won't accept a feed without both being offered. No idea, but that could be the case and only IPB themselves will be able to answer that one. You could try finding another site only offering title to be pulled and see if that works also, but not an XenForo site.

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I guess it could be a validation thing with IPB. I do remember when using IPB 3.0.6 that it checked to see if it was a valid UTF-8 feed. The feed would still work (from what I remember), but it let you know if you was subscribing to a feed that wasn't proper validated to UTF-8. But to be fair, you'll find loads of well known popular feeds that don't validate. The BBC News seem to offer great feeds that are also well validated unlike many other sites out there.

It might also be a case, because your IPB is trying to pull both content and title. That it won't accept a feed without both being offered. No idea, but that could be the case and only IPB themselves will be able to answer that one. You could try finding another site only offering title to be pulled and see if that works also, but not an XenForo site.

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I use Chrome so I automatically see the raw XML, but I've ran validations on the RSS feeds from here, AdminExtra and now VoiceRadio.us and they all don't validate as every other RSS Feed (be it blogs, vbulletin forums, etc) get imported into my IPB forum.

I submitted a bug report to see if they can fix the validation of the RSS Feed which will most likely work.

Your best bet, really, is to verify with IPS why it is failing to be consumed by IPB. If it is failing because the invalid validation, the double authors, then yes, that is an issue with XF to fix but if it is failing because there is no description then that is an issue with IPB since the RSS specs don't require both elements to be present.